LAWS   OF  1895 


RELATING   TO 


Public  Schools 


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SCHOOL    LIBRARIES. 

'SECTION  1.      (Chapter  47.)     The  treasurer  of  each  town 

•"in  this  state  shall  withhold  annually  from  the  money  re- 

ceived from  the  school  fund  income  for  the  several  school 

'districts  whose  schoolhouses  are  located  in  the  town  of 

which  he  is  the  treasurer,  an  amount  equal  to  ten  cents 

for  each  person  of  school  age  residing  in  such  districts 

Jfor  the  purchase  of  books  as  hereinafter  provided. 

SECTION  2.     Between    the    tenth    day  of  July  and  the 
'thirty-first  day  of  August  in  each  year,  the  town  clerk, 
'with    the    assistance    of    the    county    superintendent    of 
schools,  shall  expend  all    money    withheld  by  the    town 
treasurer  as  provided  in  section  1  of  this  act,  in  the  pur- 
chase of  books  selected  from  the    lists    prepared  by  the 
state  superintendent  as  hereinafter  provided,  for  the  use 
«-of    the    several    school    districts  from  which  money    has 
fbeen  so  withheld,  and  he  shall  distribute  the  books  thus 
-selected  and  purchased,  among  the  several  school  districts, 
Un  proportion  to  the  sums  of  money  withheld  from  each. 
SECTION  3.     It  is    hereby  made    the  duty  of  the  state 
superintendent  to  prepare  annually  or  biennially,  as  he 
inay  deem  necessary,  lists  of   books    suitable  for  use  in 
school  district  libraries,  and  furnish  copies  of  such  lists 
to  each  town  clerk  and  each  county    superintendent,   as 
often  as  lifao  same  5bafl;.r>£   published    or    revised,  from 
which  lists,  the.se.veral  town  clerks  shall  select  and  pur- 
for'us-e  "iKtbje/pubJic  school  libraries  in  the 


several  towns  of  the  state  as  provided  in  this  act. 


SECTION  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  town  clerk  to 
keep  a  complete  record  of  the  books  purchased  by  him 
and  distributed  to  the  several  school  districts,  in  a 
record  book  furnished  by  the  state  superintendent  upon 
application,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  from  time  to 
time,  as  he  may  deem  necessary,  to  collect  and  redis- 
tribute among  the  several  school  districts  the  books, 
purchased  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  in  the  same 
manner  as  provided  for  first  distribution,  to  the  end 
that  each  district  may  have  the  use  of  all  books  pur- 
chased for  use  in  the  school  district  libraries  of  the 
town.  For  such  services  properly  rendered,  the  town 
clerk  shall  be  allowed  the  usual  per  diem  of  two  dollars 
for  the  time  actually  and  necessarily  spent. 

SECTION  5.  Unless  the  school  district  shall,  at  the  an- 
nual meeting,  elect  some  other  person  to  be  librarian 
of  the  district,  the  district  clerk  shall  act  as  librarian 
for  the  district  and  shall  receive  and  have  the  care  and 
custody  of  the  books,  distributed  to  the  district,  pursu- 
ant to  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  shall  loan  them  to 
teachers,  pupils  and  other  residents  of  the  district  in 
accordance  with  the  rules  and  regulations  prescribed  by 
the  state  superintendent.  It  is  further  provided  that 
during  the  periods  that  the  school  is  in  session  the  li- 
brary shall  be  placed  in  the  school  house  and  the  teacher 
shall  act  as  librarian  under  the  supervision  of  the  dis- 
trict clerk  or  of  tbe  librarian  elected  at  the  annual 
meeting.  The  state  superintendent  shall  have  authority 
to  suspend  the  operation  of  this  act  for  any  year  in  any 
or  every  town,  by  giving  due  notice  of  such  suspension 
to  the  respective  town  clerks  on  or  before  the  tenth  day 
of  June. 

SECTION  6.  The  superintendent  of  farm  institutes  shall 
deposit,  each  year,  with  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  instruction  a  sufficient  number  of  copies  of  the 
farm  institute  bulletin  to  supply  every  public  school  li- 

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brary  of  the  state  with  one  copy  of  each  edition  of  said 
bulletin,  which  bulletins  the  state  superintendent  shall 
send  to  the  various  town  clerks  who  shall  distribute 
them  to  the  public  school  libraries  of  the  schools  in 
their  respective  towns,  from  which  libraries  the  said 
bulletins  shall  be  loaned  in  like  manner  and  under  the 
same  regulations  prescribed  for  the  loaning  of  books 
from  the  public  school  libraries  of  the  state 

This  is  an  amendment  to  chapter  288  of  the  laws  of 
1889,  and  makes  the  withholding  of  ten  cents  for  each 
person  of  school  age  mandatory  on  the  town  treasurer. 
It  is  also  mandatory  that  the  library  shall  be  placed  in 
the  schoolhouse  and  kept  there  during  the  period  the 
school  is  in  session. 


COUNTY    SUPERINTENDENTS. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  333.)  No  person  shall  be  eligible 
to  the  office  of  county  superintendent  who  shall  not  at 
the  time  of  his  election  or  appointment  have  taught  in 
the  public  schools  of  the  state  for  a  period  of  eight 
months,  and  who  shall  not  at  the  time  of  such  election 
or  appointment  hold  a  certificate  entitling  him  to  teach 
in  any  public  school  in  the  state,  or  a  certificate  to  be 
known  as  a  county  superintendent's  certificate,  and 
which  shall  be  issued  by  the  state  superintendent  after 
examination  by,  and  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 
board  of  examiners  for  state  certificates. 

SECTION  2.  The  board  of  examiners  for  state  certifi- 
cate shall,  at  the  time  of  holding  the  regular  examina- 
tions for  state  certificates  now  provided  for  by  law,  ex- 
amine a1!  applicants  for  the  county  superintendent's 
certificate  herein  provided  for,  upon  the  branches  upon 
which  examination  is  now  required  for  a  first  grade 
county  certificate,  and  also  upon  school  law,  upon  the 
organization  and  management  of  district  schools,  and 
upon  the  supervision  of  district  schools. 


SECTION  3.  The  board  of  examiners  for  state  certifi- 
cates shall,  in  addition  to  the  examination  now  pro- 
vided for  by  law,  hold  in  the  month  of  July  of  each 
year,  three  examinations  simultaneously  at  three  differ- 
ent points  in  the  state.  The  points  where  such  exam- 
inations shall  be  held  shall  be  determined  by  the  state 
superintendent,  and  shall  be  chosen  with  reference  to 
the  accommodation  of  applicants  in  different  parts  of 
the  state.  The  examinations  so  held  shall  be  for  the 
purpose  of  examining  applicants  for  the  county  superin- 
tendent's certificate  herein  provided  for.  Each  of  the 
three  examinations  shall  be  held  under  the  supervision 
of  a  member  of  the  board  of  examiners,  but  the  scope 
and  character  of  the  examination  shall  be  previously  de- 
termined by  the  board  of  examiners  and  the  state  su- 
perintendent. Printed  questions  shall  be  prepared  on 
each  subject  upon  wnich  the  applicant  is  required  to  be 
examined,  and  the  board  of  examiners  shall  examine 
the  papers  written  by  applicants  arid  shall  file  all 
papers  so  written  in  the  office  of  the  state  superintend- 
ent. 

SECTION  4.  All  persons  passing  the  examination  pre- 
scribed in  section  3  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  board  of 
examiners  /or  state  certificates,  and  who  shall  furnish 
satisfactory  testimonials  of  moral  character  to  the  board 
of  examiners,  shall,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 
board,  receive  from  the  state  superintendent  the  county 
superintendent's  certificate,  which,  together  with  the 
eight  months'  experience  in  teaching  in  the  public 
schools  provided  for  in  section  1,  shall  constitute  a  legal 
qualification  to  hold  the  office  of  county  superintendent 
of  schools.  It  shall  also  legally  qualify  the  holder  to 
teach  in  any  public  school  in  the  state  for  which  a  first 
grade  county  certificate  is  now  a  legal  qualification. 
Such  certificate  shall  remain  in  force  until  revoked  by 
the  state  superintendent  in  accordance  with  the  provis- 


ions  of  section  457  of  Sanborn  &  Berryman's  annotated 
statutes  of  Wisconsin. 

SECTION  5.  The  county  clerk  shall  not  place  the  name 
of  any  person  upon  the  official  ballot  as  a  candidate  for 
the  office  of  county  superintendent  of  schools  unless  such 
person  shall  have  filed  in  the  office  of  the  county  clerk, 
at  least  fifteen  days  before  the  date  on  which  the  elec- 
tion is  to  be  held,  proof  of  having  successfully  taught 
in  the  public  schools  of  the  state  for  a  period  of  eight 
months,  and  a  copy  of  the  certificate  required  by  this 
act. 

SECTION  6.  The  provisions  of  law  for  payment  of  ex- 
penses and  per  diem  of  members  of  the  board  of  exam- 
iners while  conducting  examinations  for  state  certifi- 
cates, shall  extend  to  the  examinations  herein  provided 
for,  for  the  county  superintendent's  certificate. 

SECTION  7.  The  provisions  of  this  act  shall  not  oper- 
ate to  disqualify  for  re-election  any  person  holding  the 
office  of  county  superintendent  of  schools  at  the  time  of 
its  passage,  nor  any  person  who  has  at  any  time  held 
the  office  of  county  superintendent  of  schools  in  the 
state  of  Wisconsin. 

SECTION  8.  All  laws  or  parts  of  laws  inconsistent 
with  the  provisions  of  this  act  are  hereby  repealed. 

DIPLOMAS. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  243.)  Teachers'  certificates 
granted  by  other  states  which  are  fully  and  fairly  equiv- 
alent to  the  Wisconsin  unlimited  certificate,  may  be 
countersigned  by  the  state  superintendent  upon  the 
recommendation  of  the  state  board  of  examiners.  The 
holder  of  such  certificate  shall  furnish  to  the  board  of 
examiners  such  evidence  of  learning,  and  good  moral 
character,  experience  and  success  in  teaching  as  is  re- 
quired for  the  unlimited  state  certificate. 


SECTION  2.  Any  person  holding  a  diploma  granted 
upon  the  completion  of  a  regular  collegiate  course  of  the 
state  university,  or  upon  the  completion  of  the  full 
course  of  any  Wisconsin  normal  school,  may  present 
such  diploma  to  the  state  superintendent  to  be  counter- 
signed. No  diploma  shall  be  countersigned  except  the 
holder  thereof  shall  furnish  evidence  satisfactory  to  the* 
state  superintendent  of  good  moral  character  and  one 
year's  successful  teaching  in  a  public  school.  The  cer- 
tificate granted  upon  the  completion  of  the  elementary- 
course  of  any  Wisconsin  state  normal  school  may  be 
countersigned  by  the  state  superintendent.  When 
countersigned  it  shall  have  the  force  and  effect  of  a 
limited  state  certificate  in  this  state;  but  no  such  cer- 
tificate shall  be  countersigned  unless  satisfactory  evi- 
dence be  furnished  the  state  superintendent  of  good? 
moral  character  and  successful  experience  in  teaching  a* 
public  school  for  eight  months  after  the  date  of  its- 
issuance. 

SECTION  3.  The  holder  of  a  diploma  granted  by  any 
incorporated  college  or  university,  whose  regular  col- 
legiate courses  are  fully  and  fairly  equivalent  to  corre- 
sponding courses  in  the  university  of  Wisconsin,  and 
the  holder  of  a  diploma  granted  by  a  state  normal  school 
whose  course  of  study  is  fully  and  fairly  equivalent  to 
the  courses  of  study  in  the  Wisconsin  normal  schools,, 
may  present  such  diploma,  together  with  evidence  of  the 
required  standing  of  the  college,  university  or  normal 
school  granting  the  same,  to  the  state  board  of  exami- 
ners. The  applicant  shall  furnish  therewith  testimonials 
of  good  moral  character  and  of  two  years'  successful 
teaching  in  a  public  school  after  the  date  of  issue  of 
said  diploma.  The  diploma  recommended  favorably  by- 
said  board  shall  be  countersigned  by  the  state  superin- 
tendent. The  holder  of  a  diploma  which  is  not  counter- 
signed, and  which  was  granted  upon  the  completion  of 


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^a  course  of  study  accredited  as  herein  provided,  may  be 
given  a  special  license  by  the  state  superintendent  to 
teach  for  one  year  in  a  public  school  upon  the  recom- 
vmendation  of  the  state  board  of  examiners,  made  in  pur- 
suance of  such  examination  as  to  learning,  moral  char- 
acter and  ability  to  teach  as  said  board  may  require. 

SECTION  4.  All  diplomas  and  life  certificates  provided 
•for  in  the  three  preceding  sections,  when  countersigned, 
shall  have  the  force  and  effect  given  by  law  to  the  un- 
limited state  certificate;  provided,  that  any  diploma 
•described  in  section  2  shall  have  like  force  and  effect 
for  one  year  before  it  is  countersigned. 

SECTION  5.  Any  state  certificate,  or  its  equivalent, 
•may  be  revoked  by  the  state  superintendent  for  incom- 
^petency  or  immoral  conduct;  but  before  any  such  revo- 
cation the  holder  shall  be  served  with  a  written  state- 
ment of  the  charges  against  him,  and  shall  have  an  op- 
portunity for  defense. 

This  law  makes  a  radical  change  in  the  matter  of 
•countersigning  diplomas  and  certificates  issued  in  other 
.•states  than  Wisconsin,  by  providing  for  such  counter- 
.signature  upon  recommendation  of  the  state  board  of  ex- 
aminers only.  The  experience  required  of  those  asking 
•countersign ature  of  diplomas  or  certificates  issued  in 
Wisconsin,  will  be  held  as  required  in  this  state.  As 
--to  others  the  state  board  will  make  its  own  rule. 


HIGH   SCHOOLS — MANUAL   TRAINING. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  358.)  It  shall  be  lawful  for  any 
"high  school  board  or  any  board  of  education  in  this  state 
having  charge  of  a  free  high  school,  or  of  a  high  school 
having  a  course  of  study  equivalent  to  the  course  or 

•  courses  prescribed  by  the  state  superintendent  for  free 
high  schools,  to  establish  and  maintain  a  department  of 
manual  training  in  connection  with  the  schools  under  its 

•  control  and  management. 


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SECTION  2.  The  expense  of  maintaining  such  manual 
training  department  shall  be  provided  for  in  the  same 
manner  as  other  expenses  of  maintaining  high  schools  are 
provided  for,  by  taxes  assessed  upon  the  taxable  prop- 
erty of  the  territory  included  in  the  corporation,  dis- 
trict or  districts  maintaining  the  high  school  in  con- 
nection with  which  the  manual  training  department  is 
sstablished,  and  such  department  shall  be  under  the 
management,  direction  and  control  of  the  board  having 
the  management  and  control  of  the  high  school. 

SECTION  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  state  superin- 
tendent, as  far  as  the  other  duties  of  his  office  may  war- 
rant, to  give  such  information  and  assistance  as  may 
seem  necessary  in  organizing  and  maintaining  manual 
training  departments  and  in  arranging  schemes  and 
outlines  of  work.  The  state  superintendent,  with  the 
aid  of  the  supervisor  of  high  schools,  shall  also  have 
general  supervision  of  all  manual  training  departments 
established  and  maintained  under  the.  provision  of  this 
act,  shall  from  time  to  time  inspect  the  same,  make 
such  recommendations  relating  to  the  management  as  he 
may  deem  necessary,  and  in  his  biennial  report  make 
such  report  thereon  as  shall  give  full  information  con- 
cerning their  number,  character  and  efficiency,  and  their 
value  as  an  educational  factor. 

SECTION  4.  The  state  superintendent  shall  establish 
a  standard  of  qualification  for  all  teachers  in  manual 
training  departments  and  may  grant  special  certificates 
to  such  applicants  as  are  to  his  judgment  fully  quali- 
fied to  instruct  in  special  lines  of  manual  work,  which 
certificates  shall  be  in  such  form  and  for  such  time  as 
he  may  prescribe,  and  shall  be  regarded  as  certificates 
legally  qualifying  the  holders  thereof  to  teach  in  any 
manual  training  department  forming  a  part  of  the 
public  school  system  of  the  state. 

SECTION  5.     Any    high  school  whose  course  of  study 


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or  outline  of  work  in  manual  training  has  been  approved 
by  the  state  superintendent  and  whose  teacher  or  teach- 
ers have  been  duly  qualified  according  to  section  4  of 
this  act,  may  upon  application  be  placed  upon  an  ap- 
proved list  of  schools  maintaining  manual  training  de- 
partments. A  school  once  entered  upon  this  approved 
list  may  remain  there  and  be  entitled  to  the  special  state 
aid  hereinafter  provided  in  this  act,  so  long  as  the 
scope  of  work  and  its  character  is  maintained  from 
year  to  year  in  such  a  manner  as  to  meet  the  approval 
of  the  state  superintendent;  provided,  that  the  state 
superintendant  shall  not  under  the  provision  of  this  act 
place  upon  the  said  approved  list  more  than  ten  schools. 

SECTION  6.  On  the  first  of  July  each  year  the  clerk 
of  each  high  school  board  maintaining  a  school  on  the 
approved  list,  or  the  city  superintendent  of  any  city 
where  such  an  approved  school  is  maintained,  shall  make 
a  report  to  the  state  superintendent,  in  such  form  as 
may  be  required,  setting  forth  the  facts  relating  to  the 
cost  of  maintenance  of  the  manual  training  department, 
the  character  of  the  work  done  therein,  the  number  and 
name  of  teachers  employed  therein,  and  the  length  of 
time  such  department  was  maintained  during  the  year. 
And  upon  the  receipt  of  such  report,  if  it  shall  appear 
that  the  department  has  been  maintained  in  a  .  satisfac- 
tory manner  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  six  months 
during  the  year  ending  with  the  date  of  the  report,  the 
said  superintendent  shall  make  certificate  to  that  effect 
and  file  the  same  with  the  secretary  of  state. 

SECTION  7.  Upon  receiving  the  certificate  of  the  state 
superintendent  provided  in  section  6,  of  this  act,  the 
secretary  of  state  shall  immediately  draw  his  warrant 
upon  the  state  treasurer,  for  the  sum  of  two  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars,  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  the  district 
or  corporation  maintaining  a  school  which  is  in  the  list 


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of  approved  schools  maintaining  manual  training  depart- 
ments, and  reporting  as  herein  provided. 

SECTION  8.  There  is  hereby  annually  appropriated 
out  of  any  money  in  the  state  treasury  not  otherwise- 
appropriated,  a  sum  sufficient  to  carry  out  the  provis- 
ions of  this  act,  and  all  sums  so  paid  for  the  establish- 
ment and  support  of  manual  training  departments,  shall 
be  annually  added  to  the  state  tax,  and  levied  and  col- 
lected as  other  state  taxes  are  collected;  provided,  that 
the  total  amount  expended  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  twenty-five  hundred  dol- 
lars in  any  one  year,  and  no  aid  shall  be  given  to  any 
school  prior  to  July,  1896. 

COUNTY    INSTITUTE    FUND. 

SECTON  1.  (Chapter  331. )  Any  applicant  present- 
ing himself  for  examination  by  any  county  superintend- 
ent of  schools  for  a  certificate  entitling  him  to  teach  in 
the  county  superintendent's  district  shall,  before  such 
examination  is  entered  upon,  pa,y  to  the  said  county 
superintendent  an  examination  fee  of  one  dollar. 

SECTION  2.  Any  person  making  application  to  any 
county  superintendent  for  the  issuance  of  a  certificate 
based  upon  papers  written  in  an  examination  held  in 
another  superintendent's  district,  under  the  provisions 
of  section  450  of  Sanborn  and  Berryman's  annotated 
statutes,  shall,  before  the  issuance  of  such  certificate,, 
pay  to  the  county  superintendent  to  whom  the  applica- 
tion is  made  an  examination  fee  of  one  dollar. 

SECTION  3.  Any  graduate  of  a  high  school  making 
application  to  any  county  superintendent  for  the  coun- 
tersigning of  his  certificate  of  graduation  or  diploma, 
under  the  provisions  of  section  452a,  chapter  311,  laws  of 
1885,  shall,  before  such  certificate  of  graduation  or 
diploma  shall  be  countersigned  and  delivered,  pay  to 


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the  county  superintendent  to  whom  the  application  is 
made  an  examination  fee  of  one  dollar. 

SECTION  4.  All  moneys  paid  to  the  county  superin- 
tendent under  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  constitute 
an  institute  fund,  and  shall  be  used  under  the  direction 
of  the  county  superintendent  in  defraying  the  necessary 
expenses,  in  whole  or  in  part,  of  conducting  one  or 
more  teachers'  institutes  annually  for  the  instruction  of 
the  teachers  in  his  district  in  the  theory  and  art  of 
teaching  and  in  the  branches  taught  in  the  common 
schools;  and  in  compensation  for  lectures  at  such  insti- 
tutes by  others  than  the  conductors  and  county  super- 
intendent. 

SECTION  5.  The  county  superintendent  shall  annually 
make  and  file  with  the  county  clerk  of  the  county  within 
which  he  resides  a  statement,  verified  by  his  affidavit, 
giving  the  names  of  all  persons  examined  by  him  since 
the  beginning  of  the  term  he  is  then  serving  or  since 
the  date  of  his  last  statement,  together  with  the  dates 
when  such  persons  were  examined.  He  shall  also  em- 
body in  the  same  statement  the  names  of  all  persons  to 
whom  certificates  have  been  issued  upon  papers  written 
in  another  superintendent's  district  and  the  dates  when 
such  certificates  were  issued,  and  also  the  names  of  all 
persons,  graduates  of  high  schools,  whose  diplomas  he 
has  countersigned,  together  with  the  dates  of  counter- 
signing. At  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office  the 
oounty  superintendent  shall  file  with  the  county  clerk  a 
sworn  statement  similar  to  those  hereinbefore  provided 
for  in  this  section,  covering  the  time  from  the  close  of 
his  last  regular  series  of  examinations  to  the  close  of 
his  term,  and  he  shall  embody  in  such  statement  a  sum- 
mary, giving  the  number  of  persons  in  each  of  the  three 
classes  herein  named,  and  of  all  the  persons  so  reported 
by  him  to  the  county  clerk  during  his  term  of  office;  the 
.amount  of  fees  received  by  bim  during  his  term  of  office, 


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the  amount  paid  out  by  him,  and  the  amount  remaining 
in  his  hands.  And  he  shall  pay  over  to  his  successor  in 
office  all  moneys  thus  remaining  in  his  hands  at  the  ex- 
piration of  his  term  of  office. 

SECTION  6.  All  moneys  collected  by  the  county  super- 
intendent, under  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be  paid 
out  each  year  for  the  purposes  specified  in  section  4  of 
this  act,  and  for  no  other  purposes.  Each  payment  shall 
be  entered  in  a  book  kept  by  the  county  superintendent 
for  that  purpose,  which  shall  be  open  to  public  inspec- 
tion, and  be  by  him  delivered  to  his  successor  in  office, 
and  shall  be  accompanied  by  a  statement  of  the  name  of 
the  person  to  whom  the  payment  is  made,  and  the  char- 
acter of  the  service  rendered,  or  material  furnished.  No 
money  shall  be  paid  for  services  rendered  as  an  in- 
structor in  any  institute  unless  the  person  rendering 
such  service  shall  hold  a  certificate  signed  by  the  state 
superintendent  certifying  that  the  committee  on  insti- 
tutes of  the  board  of  regents  of  normal  schools  approve^ 
of  said  person  as  a  competent  institute  instructor.  The 
said  committee  on  teachers'  institutes  is  hereby  author- 
ized and  directed  to  prepare  annually  and  transmit  to 
each  county  superintendent  in  the  state,  a  list  of  per- 
sons approved  by  the  committee  for  service  in  the  insti- 
tutes herein  provided  for. 

SECTION  7.  The  county  board  shall  require  the  county 
superintendent  to  give  bonds  with  good  and  sufficient 
sureties  for  the  proper  performance  of  the  duties  pre- 
scribed by  this  act  in  an  amount  which  shall  not  be  less- 
than  twice  the  amount  likely  to  be  collected  and  dis- 
bursed by  him  annually,  under  this  act. 

In  view  of  the  statement  to  the  county  clerk  required 
by  this  law,  superintendents  should  enroll  and  give 
questions  to  those  only  who  have  paid  the  fee  of  one 
dollar. 


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INTEREST  ON  SCHOOL  LOANS. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  73.)  The  commissioners  of  pub- 
lic lands  are  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  credit 
any  school  district  to  which  a  loan  has  been  made  from 
the  trust  funds  since  the  passage  of  chapter  187,  of  the 
laws  of  1893,  any  and  all  amounts  of  interest  paid  by 
such  school  district  in  excess  of  four  per  cent.,  as  re- 
quired by  said  chapter;  said  credit  to  be  given  upon  the 
next  payment  of  interest  falling  due  upon  said  loan,  and 
said  commissioners  are  further  authorized  and  directed 
to  reduce  the  interest  hereafter  to  be  paid  upon  all  such 
loans  to  four  per  cent,  per  annum. 

PURCHASES   BY   SCHOOL   BOARDS. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  95.)  Section  1  of  chapter  272, 
of  the  general  laws  of  1889,  is  hereby  amended  so  as  to 
read  as  follows:  Section  1.  The  school  board  of  each 
city  and  school  district  in  the  state  is  hereby  directed 
and  required  to  purchase  at  the  expense  of  such  city  or 
school  district  one  or  more  flags  of  the  United  States 
and  place  and  keep  one  of  them  in  each  schoolroom  or 
•display  from  flagstaff  on  schoolhouse  or  from  flagstaff  on 
the  school  grounds  in  said  city  or  school  district,  and 
also  in  tike  manner  to  purchase  such  necessary  apparatus 
or  appliances  as  may  be  necessary  for  properly  preserv- 
ing such  flag  or  flags. 

STATE    SUPERINTENDENT. 

WHEREAS,  At  the  biennial  session  of  the  legislature  of 
this  state  for  the  year  1893  an  amendment  to  the  con- 
stitution of  this  state  was  proposed  and  agreed  to  by  a 
majority  of  the  members  elected  to  each  of  the  two 
houses,  which  proposed  amendment  was  in  the  following 
language: 


In 

"  Resolved  by  the  assembly,  the  senate  concurring,  That 
section  1,  article  10,  of  the  constitution  of  the  state  of 
Wisconsin  be  amended  by  striking  out  this  sentence: 
'  Provided,  that  his  compensation  shall  not  exceed  the 
sum  of  twelve  hundred  dollars  annually.' 

The  people  of  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  represented  in  senate 
and  assembly,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

SECTION  1.  The  foregoing  proposed  amendment  to 
the  constitution  of  the  state  of  Wisconsin  shall  be  sub- 
mitted to  a  vote  of  the  people  of  this  state  in  the  man- 
ner now  provided  by  law  for  the  submission  of  proposed 
amendments  at  the  next  general  election  in  November, 
1896. 

AN  ACT  fixing  the  salary  of  the  state  superintendent  of 
public  instruction. 

The  people  of  the  state  of  Wisconsin,  represented  in  senate 
<ind  assembly,  do  enact  asjolloics: 

WHEREAS,  The  legislature  at  a  session  held  in  the 
year  1893  passed  a  joint  resolution  for  the  amendment 
of  section  1,  of  article  X,  of  the  constitution  of  the 
state  of  Wisconsin,  striking  out  the  following  sentence: 
"Provided,  that  his  compensation  shall  not  exceed  the 
sum  of  twelve  hundred  dollars  annually,"  and 

WHEREAS,  The  legislature  of  said  state  for  the 
year  1895  has  concurred  in  said  joint  resolution,  and 
passed  an  act  submitting  the  same  to  a  vote  of  the 
people  at  a  general  election  to  be  held  in  November, 
1896,  now,  therefore, 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  93.)  The  annual  salary  of  the  state 
superintendent  of  public  instruction  from  and  after  the 
first  Monday  in  January,  1897,  shall  be  three  thousand 
dollars. 

SECTION  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force 
from  and  after  the  first  Monday  in  January,  1897;  pro- 
vided, that  the  people  of  this  state  shall  approve  and 
ratify  the  amendment  to  the  constitution  contained  in 
the  foregoing  resolution. 


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NORMAL    SCHOOLS. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  91.)  There  is  hereby  appropri- 
ated to  the  normal  school  fund  income  out  of  any  money 
in  the  state  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated  the  fol- 
lowing sums:  (1)  For  current  expenses  for  the  year 
1894-95,  six  thousand  dollars.  (2)  For  libraries,  ten 
thousand  three  hundred  dollars.  (3)  For  equipment  for 
chemical,  physical  and  biological  laboratories,  museums 
of  natural  history,  drawing  departments  and  gymnasia, 
fourteen  thousand  seven  hundred  dollars.  (4)  For  heat- 
ing apparatus,  repairs  and  furniture,  forty-one  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars. 

SECTION  2.  Section  3,  chapter  185,  laws  of  1893.  is 
hereby  amended  so  as  to  read  as  follows :  Section  3. 
For  the  purpose  of  conducting  and  mainta:ning  the  state 
normal  schools,  there  shall  be  levied  and  collected  an- 
nually hereafter  as  other  state  taxes  are  levied  and  col- 
lected, a  state  tax  of  one-fifth  of  one  mill  for  each  dollar 
of  the  assessed  valuation  of  the  taxable  property  of  the 
state;  which  amount  so  levied  and  collected  is  hereby 
appropriated  to  the  normal  school  fund  income  for  the 
uses  and  purposes  specified  in  this  section.  Provided,, 
that  until  the  seventh  normal  is  established  and  put  in 
operation  the  sum  of  twenty  thousand  dollars  shall  be 
annually  returned  to  the  general  fund. 

SECTION  3.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act,  the  secretary  of  state  and  state 
treasurer,  with  the  consent  and  approval  of  the  gover- 
nor, are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  transfer 
from  the  trust  funds  of  the  state  to  the  general  fund 
the  sum  of  seventv-two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  to 
be  recurned  to  the  trust  funds  from  the  general  fund  in- 
come or  the  fiscal  year  ending;  on  the  30th  day  of  Sep- 
tember, 1896. 


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SECTION  1.  (Chapter  296.)  No  claim  or  account  shall 
be  hereafter  paid  by  or  under  the  authority  of  the 
board  of  regents  of  normal  schools  and  the  board  of 
regents  of  the  state  university  unless  the  said  claim  or 
account  shall  specify  the  nature  and  particulars  thereof, 
and  be  verified  by  the  oath,  affidavit 'or  affirmation  of 
the  claimant  or  his  agent,  in  writing,  and  shall  have 
been  certified  in  writing  thereon  by  the  officer  or  mem- 
ber of  said  board  designated  by  resolution  of  said  board 
to  certify  claims  and  accounts  for  payment. 

SECTION  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  of  said  boards 
within  ten  days  after  the  expiration  of  any  quarter  to 
transmit  to  the  secretary  of  state  an  itemized  statement 
of  all  payments  made  by  it  or  under  its  authority  dur- 
ing the  preceding  quarter,  certified  by  the  president 
and  secretary  of  said  board,  which  said  statement  shall 
be  included  in  the  biennial  report  of  the  secretary  of 
state. 

UNIVERSITY. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  241.)  There  shall  be  levied  and! 
collected  annually  for  two  years  an  additional  state  tax: 
of  one-fifth  of  one  mill  for  each  dollar  of  the  assessed 
valuation  of  the  taxable  property  of  the  state,  which 
amount  so  levied  and  collected  is  hereby  appropriated  to- 
the  university  fund  income  of  the  University  of  Wiscon- 
sin, and  shall  be  used  by  the  board  of  regents  of  the  uni- 
versity for  increased  administration  expenditures  and 
expenditures  for  the  department  of  engineering,  advanc- 
ing the  work  of  university  extension  in  the  state  of 
Wisconsin,  in  addition  to  the  horticultural  building,  en- 
largement of  ladies'  hall  with  gymnasium  apartments,, 
changes  and  repairs  in  university  hall,  and  the  con- 
struction of  a  farm  barn  and  purchase  of  a  herd  of  cat- 
tle for  the  agricultural  department;  any  residue  which 
may  remain  may  be  applied  to  such  uses  as  the  regerts 
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may  deem  to  be  most  important  to  the  interests  of  the 
university;  provided,  that  out  of  the  income  derived 
from  said  tax  there  shall  be  set  apart  for  the  college  of 
agriculture,  in  addition  to  its  present  several  incomes, 
twenty  thousand  dollars  for  the  completion  and  equip- 
ment of  the  horticultural  building,  five  thousand  dol- 
lars for  a  dairy  barn,  two  thousand  dollars  for  the  pur- 
chase of  a  herd  of  dairy  cows,  and  ten  thousand  dollars 
annually  for  current  expenses. 

SECTION  2.  The  state  tax  directed  to  be  levied  and 
collected  by  chapter  29  of  the  general  laws  of  Wiscon- 
sin of  1891,  shall  be  continued  after  the  lapse  of  the  six 
years  therein  mentioned,  and  so  continued  shall  be 
levied  and  collected  annually,  and  is  hereby  appropri- 
ated to  the  university  fund  income  of  the  University  of 
Wisconsin  to  meet  the  current  or  administration  ex- 
penditures of  said  university  and  may  be  applied  in  the 
same  manner  as  other  university  fund  income. 

SECTION  3.  The  commissioners  of  public  lands  be  and 
they  are  hereby  authorized  to  direct  the  state  treasurer 
from  time  to  time  to  set  apart  by  way  of  loan  to  the 
fund  known  as  the  university  fund  income  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  or  like  university  uses,  such  ex- 
cess of  moneys,  if  any,  or  part  thereof,  in  the  trust 
fund  not  otherwise  appropriated  or  required  for  antici- 
pated ordinary  expenditure  as  in  their  judgment  shall 
be  prudent,  such  loan  to  be  repaid  to  the  trust  fund 
from  the  portions  of  state  tax  hereinbefore  appropriated 
with  interest  thereon  at  the  rate  then  required  on  de- 
posits in  bank  made  pursuant  to  chapter  273  of  the  gen- 
eral laws  of  Wisconsin  of  the  year  1891,  and  the  acts 
amendatory  thereof. 

HOME   FOR   FEEBLE-MINDED. 

SECTION  1.      (Chapter  138.)     There  is    hereby    created 
and  established  for  the  care,  custody  and  training  of  the 


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feeble-minded,  epileptic  and  idiotic  of  this  state,  an  in- 
stitution to  be  known  as  "  The  Wisconsin  Home  for 
Feeble-minded.  " 

SECTION  '1  The  state  board  of  control  shall  within 
six  months  from  the  passage  of  this  act,  select  a  suita- 
ble site  for  such  a  home,  and  shall  have  power  to  receive 
proposals  for  the  donation  of  land  to  the  state  for  such 
site,  and  to  receive  the  same  by  gift,  or  they  may  pur- 
chase such  site  if  no  proper  location  shall  be  given  for 
that  purpose,  and  they  may  receive  proposals  for  dona- 
tions of  money  or  other  securities  in  behalf  of  this  state 
for  the  benefit  of  such  home,  and  they  may  locate  the 
same,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  governor  of  the 
state,  at  such  point  as  they,  together  with  the  governor, 
shall  deem  for  the  best  interests  of  this  state,  and  re- 
ceive any  donations  or  bequests  which  may  be  made  for 
its  maintenance  and  support.  Said  board  shall  as  soon 
as  practicable  after  the  location  of  said  institution, 
cause  to  be  erected  on  the  site  so  selected,  suitable 
buildings,  and  make  thereon  the  improvements  necessary 
to' carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  this  act.  The  site 
selected  shall  comprise  not  less  than  two  hundred  acres 
of  land,  possessing  good  facilities  for  drainage  and  sew- 
erage, and  an  abundant  supply  of  pure  water.  Munici- 
palities of  this  state  are  hereby  empowered  to  make  the 
donations  herein  mentioned  for  the  establishment  and 
building  of  such  a  home. 

SECTION  3.  The  general  supervision  and  government 
of  said  home  shall  be  vesetd  in  the  state  board  of  con- 
trol of  reformatory,  charitable  and  penal  institutions, 
pursuant  to  the  law  creating  and  defining  the  duties  of 
said  board,  and  said  board  shall  establish  a  system  of 
government  for  the  institution,  and  shall  make  all  nec- 
essary rules  and  regulations  for  enforcing  discipline, 
imparting  instruction,  preserving  health,  and  for  the 
proper  care  and  training  of  the  persons  in  said  home 


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The  said  board  shall  appoint  a  superintendent,  a  matron, 
and  such  other  officers,  teachers  and  employes  as  shall 
be  necessary,  who  shall  severally  hold  their  offices  or 
places  during  the  pleasure  of  said  board,  and  said  board 
shall  prescribe  their  duties  and  fix  their  salaries,  and 
all  provisions  of  chapter  298,  of  the  laws  of  Wisconsin 
for  the  year  1881,  and  chapter  221,  of  the  laws  of  Wis- 
consin for  the  year  1891,  and  the  acts  amendatory 
thereof  and  supplementary  thereto,  shall,  as  far  as 
practicable,  apply  to  the  government  and  management 
of  said  home. 

SECTION  4.  All  feeble-minded,  epileptic  and  idiotic 
persons,  residents  of  the  state,  or  any  such  person 
found  therein,  whose  residence  cannot  be  ascertained, 
may  be  admitted  to  said  home  and  receive  the  benefit 
thereof  free  of  charge,  subject  to  such  rules  and  regula- 
tions as  may  be  made  by  the  said  board  of  control,  and 
said  board  shall  adopt  and  publish  a  schhdule  of  maxi- 
mum charges  and  expenses, rfor  such  feeble-minded,  epi- 
leptic and  idiotic  persons  may  be  placed  in  the  said 
home,  but  who  shall  not,  for  any  reason,  be  entitled  to 
be  admitted  or  kept  free  of  charge;  provided,  that  all 
provisions  of  chapter  32,  of  the  revised  statutes  of  the 
state  of  Wisconsin,  relating  to  the  support  of  insane 
persons  and  the  liability  of  counties  therefor,  shall  also 
apply,  as  far  as  practicable,  to  persons  admitted  to  said 
home  for  the  feeble-minded. 

SECTION  5.  All  the  provisions  of  chapter  32,  of  the 
revised  statutes  of  the  state  of  Wisconsin  and  the  acts 
.amendatory  of  and  supplementary  thereto,  in  re- 
lation to  the  admission  of  patients  to  the  hospi- 
tals or  asylums  for  the  insane,  of  thisstate  and 
the  proceedings  to  determine  such  insanity,  and  all 
the  powers  and  duties  now  conferred  or  devolved  by 
law  upon  the  several  judges  in  this  state,  in  re- 
lation to  the  commitment  of  persons  to  some  hospital  or 


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asylum  for  the  insane,  shall,  as  far  as  practicable,  ap- 
ply to  the  admission  of  feeble-minded,  epileptic  and  idi- 
otic persons  in  the  home  hereby  established ;  and  all  ap- 
plications, proceedings,  orders  and  judgments  to  deter- 
mine the  condition  of  said  insane  persons,  shall,  as  far 
as  practicable, apply  to  the  persons  committed  to  the  home 
hereby  established;  and  all  the  powers  and  duties  con- 
ferred, or  devolved  by  law  upon  the  said  judges  are 
hereby  conferred,  devolved  and  charged  upon  said 
judges,  as  to  the  proceedings  and  judicial  inquiries,  or- 
ders, judgments  and  commitments  for  the  admission  of 
persons  to  the  said  home  hereby  created. 

SECTION  6.  Said  home  for  the  feeble-minded  shall  be 
organized  into  the  following  departments: 

1.  A    school    department   for  the  educable    grades   or 
classes. 

2.  A  custodial  department  for  the  helpless  and  lower 
types. 

3.  Such  other  departments,  or  colonies,   as  the  needs 
of  the  institution  may  require. 

As  soon  as  practicable  such  trades  and  manual  indus- 
tries as  are  adapted  to  these  several  departments  shall 
be  introduced  and  established  by  the  said  board  of  con- 
trol. 

SECTION  7.  All  persons  now  confined  in  any  of  the  chari- 
table, reformatory  or  penal  institutions  \vithin  the  state, 
-who,  upon  proper  examination  by  the  said  board  of  con- 
trol, shall  be  found  to  be  of  the  condition  and  qualifica- 
tion described  by  this  act,  may,  by  the  order  of  said 
board,  by  and  with  ihc  a  "v'.ce  and  consent  of  the  gov- 
ernor, be  transferred  to  the  said  "Wisconsin  Home  for 
Feeble-minded, "  to  be  kept  and  dealt  with  as  prescribed 
by  this  act  and  the  rules  and  regulations  made  pursuant 
thereto;  and  the  said  board  shall  make  all  rules  and 
regulations  relating  to  their  temporary  or  final  discharge. 

SECTION  8.   For  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect  the 


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purposes  specified  in  this  act,  there  is  hereby  appropri- 
ated, out  of  any  money  in  the  state  treasury  not  other- 
wise appropriated,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars.  Fifty  thousand  dollars  to  be  paid  during  the 
year  1895,  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  to  be  paid  during- 
the  year  1896;  which  sums  may  be  drawn  by  the  said 
board  upon  their  warrants  as  provided  by  law. 


THE    ERECTION    OF    SCHOOL    BUILDINGS. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  141.)  Section  118,  of  chapter 
14,  of  the  general  charter  law,  is  hereby  amended  by 
adding  thereto:  "In  cities  of  the  third  and  fourth 
classes,  where  there  is  no  board  of  public  works,  the- 
power  herein  conferred  shall  be  exercised  by  the  board 
of  education. " 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  97.)  Section  87,  of  chapter  11, 
of  the  general  charter  law,  is  hereby  amended  as  fol- 
lows: Before  the  word  "all"  in  the  first  line  prefix  the 
words  "in  cities  of  the  first  and  second  classes,"  after 
the  word  "works"  in  the  third  line  insert  the  words 
"and  in  cities  of  the  third  and  fourth  classes  in  the 
charge  of  the  board  of  education,"  and  insert  the  words 
"two  hundred"  instead  of  the  word  "fifty"  after  the  word 
"than"  in  the  fifth  line,  and  omit  the  words  "directed 
to  be  made"  in  the  sixth  line  and  substitute  the  word 
"approved,"  so  that  the  section  when  so  amended  shall 
read  as  follovvs:  Section  87.  In  cities  of  the  first  and 
second  classes  all  repairs  and  alterations  of  school  build- 
ings and  premises  shall  be  under  the  charge  of  the  board 
of  public  works,  and  in  cities  of  the  third  and  fourth 
classes  in  the  charge  of  the  board  of  education ;  but  such 
repairs  or  alterations,  except  ordinary  repairs  costing 
not  more  than  two  hundred  dollars,  shall  first  be  ap- 
proved by  the  common  council. 


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APPORTIONMENT    <>F    MONEY. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  39.)  Chapter  287,  of  the  laws 
of  1885,  as  amended  by  chapter  389,  of  the  laws  of  1891, 
as  amended  by  chapter  229,  of  the  laws  of  1893,  is 
hereby  amended  by  adding  to  section  one  thereof  as  fol- 
lows: The  state  superintendent  shall  apportion  the 
school  moneys  each  county  will  be  entitiled  to  receive 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  November  of  each  year,  and  certify  the  appor- 
tionment so  made  to  the  secretary  of  state  and  state 
treasurer,  and  he  shall,  at  the  same  time,  certify  to 
•each  county  clerk  and  county  treasurer,  the  amount  of 
said  tax  to  which  each  town,  city  and  village  in  their 
respective  counties,  is  entitled.  Upon  receiving  such  ap- 
portionment the  secretary  of  state  shall  immediately  in- 
form the  county  clerk  and  the  treasurer  of  each  county  of 
the  amount  of  state  school  tax  such  county  will  be  required 
to  levy,  and  the  amount  it  will  be  entitled  to  receive 
in  return  as  its  portion  of  the  school  fund  accruing  un 
•der  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

SECTION  2.  At  the  same  time  that  taxes  levied  for 
other  state  purposes  are  now  required  to  be  paid  into 
the  state  treasury,  the  county  treasurer  of  each  county 
shall  pay  over  to  the  state  treasurer  the  school  moneys 
arising  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  in  excess  of  the 
amount  such  county  is  entitled  to  receive  in  return  as 
its  portion  of  the  state  school  tax.  But  if  a  larger 
amount  should  be  due  any  county  than  such  county  was 
required  to  pay,  the  state  treasurer  shall  pay  to  the 
treasurer  of  such  county,  at  the  time  of  the  payment  of 
the  state  tax  assessed  against  the  county,  the  amount 
due  the  county  in  excess  of  the  state  school  tax  levied 
upon  it. 

SECTION  :>.     At  the  time  of    making  a    settlement  be- 
1  W<MMI  the  state  and  any  county,  on  account  of  any  state 


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school  tax  levied  upon  the  county,  by  the  treasurers,  re- 
ceipts shall  be  exchanged  by  such  treasurers,  showing 
that  the  full  amount  assessed  against  the  county  as  a 
state  school  tax  has  been  accounted  for  to  the  state, 
and  in  turn,  that  the  amount  due  the  county  on  account 
of  a  state  school  tax,  has  been  accounted  for  to  the 
county  by  the  state  treasurer;  and  within  ten  days  from 
the  settlement  herein  specified,  the  several  county  treas- 
urers shall  pay  over  to  the  several  town,  city  and  vil- 
lage treasurers,  the  amount  to  which  they  are  respect- 
ively entitled  by  the  apportionment  made  by  the  state 
superintendent. 

SECTION  4.  It  is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  true  in- 
tent and  meaning  of  this  act,  to  provide  for  an  earlier 
distribution  to  the  counties  of  the  moneys  collected  as  a 
state  school  tax,  and  that  only  the  balances  that  may  be 
due  any  county,  or  the  state,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall 
be  paid  in  money  at  the  time  of  settling  accounts  be- 
tween the  county  and  the  state,  in  so  far  as  they  relate 
to  the  state  school  tax. 


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TOWNSHIP    SYSTEM. 

SECTION  1.  (Chapter  276.)  Section  517,  chapter  27,  of 
Sanborn  &  Berryman's  annotated  statutes  of  Wisconsin, 
is  hereby  amended  by  adding  at  the  end  of  said  section  the 
following:  "Provided,  that  no  sub-district  shall  be  main- 
tained or  hereafter  formed  which  has  residing  within  its 

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limits  less  than  fifteen  children  of  school  age.  Pro- 
vided further,  that  any  sub-district  may  maintain  so 
many  branch  schools  as  the  convenience  of  the  school 
population  may  require,"  so  that  said  section  when 
anended  shall  read  as  follows:  Section  517.  New  sub- 
districts  may  be  formed,  and  the  boundaries  of  any  sub- 
district  may  be  altered  by  the  town  board  of  directors 
at  any  regular  meeting  of  said  board;  but  the  forma- 
tion and  alteration  of  any  joint  sub-district  shall  be  by 
concurrent  action  of  the  boards  of  directors  of  all  the 
towns  embraced  in  part  in  such  sub-districts.  Pro- 
vided, that  no  sub-district  shall  be  maintained  or  here- 
after formed  which  has  residing  within  its  limits  less 
than  fifteen  children  of  school  age.  Provided  further, 
that  any  sub-district  may  maintain  so  many  branch 
schools  as  the  convenience  of  the  school  population  may 
require. 


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